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Fast screenshot sharing in Linux

When I’m using Windows or OS X, I use a utility called Tinygrab to quickly share screenshots over the internet, whether it’s via Twitter, IM, email, etc. The concept is simple: you press a key combination, select a region of … Continue reading

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More Server Consideration

I discovered a positive development for both server options today: First, the Q9400s, a lower power version of the Q9400 which would work better in the SFF case.  Secondly, I learned that I can boot to a software RAID1 setup, … Continue reading

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A Question of Power

By now, Cervantes (my webserver) is starting to get pretty old. While it still performs it’s basic functions decently, I’m wanting to move to a RAID setup to prevent data loss due to a hard drive crash.  While I do … Continue reading

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Well, SOMEONE thought it was a good idea

A while ago, I wondered about the possibility of a small, commercially marketed server for home use, and it looks like VIA is going to do that.  They haven’t made a desktop application for administering it like I had suggested, … Continue reading

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Small, personal web servers

I recently helped my roommate shop for a small, personal web server.  We wound up basing it on Intel’s Atom platform, and I was amazed at how cheap it was.  The server (pictured above) came up to almost exactly $200, … Continue reading

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Clusterf*ck: Mass Virtualization

Sometime after I get back to Kentucky, I’m thinking of building a server for running virtual machines using VMware Server 2.0. The idea is to virtualize as many of my machines as possible.  Virtual servers, in particular, benefit from this … Continue reading

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Always lock down your mod_proxy

So, my server had been eating bandwidth for breakfast, and I finally found out why.  I was using apache’s mod_proxy to redirect incoming connections across the network, but that was being hijacked by some ad agencies and being used as … Continue reading

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Cervantes Lives! And other fun tales

Cervantes is back online, at least for the time being.  I’m going to take this opportunity to write a few things.  So much has happened since my last post. Obviously, the main thing is my internship.  I’m now almost three … Continue reading

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Server Upgraded and Back Online

Cervantes is now running on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.  I installed it as I was leaving home and finished configuring it on the free wifi at Panera.

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